in the middle east.if we can get on any issue, syria or yemen or lib ark some alignment between the u.s., european, russia and chinese, it will make life much easier to get some of the regional players in line and suggest some of these hor -- and to get some of these horrific problems resolved. thank you, jerry. gerald: thanks, paul. that's the last word. i want to thank our three outstanding panelists today, paul, joe, and gonul, for their contributions. hope that you all learned and gained some -- some insight and understanding of the issues that are before us over the next four years over this hour of discussion. this is the first of our post-election webinars. we will be scheduling others in the near future to drill down on some of these issue -a little expand thepth and to aperture a little bit. i want to thank our panelists today. i want to thank all of you for tuning in with us today and being a part of this conversation going forward. until next time, thank you. >> thank you. >> the nasa spacex c

regime change in the middle east. written in the spirit of trying to learn our history lest we repeat it. i really started to thinking about this in particular and i'm thinking about regime change around the world for a long tim time. i felt this needed a close look as i watched in particular the trump administration over the past couple of years formulate its policy on iran which started to look like gearing up for potential regime change. of course that's not the stated goal but there a lot of proponents in and outside the administration pointing in that direction the policy seem to point in that direction. before we what does down a perilous road like armageddon, may be the useful expression when have we done this before? how if we done it before question and where the lessons having done so? it turns out, which i did in the book it turns out this is not so unusual. we have had a regime change in the middle is about once per decade starting ironically enough with the coup in iran in 1963. and then you get afghanist

ambassadors at foreign policy expert discuss the incoming biden administration and its impact on middle east policy. we hear about u.s. relations with turkey and lebanon with recent peace deals in israel. here is a look. >> good morning and welcome. i am terry fireside, senior vice president at the middle eastern institute and i'm pleased to welcome you all to today's eve event. election 2020, president-elect joseph biden. following a contentious u.s. election joseph biden will be the next president of the united states and leaders in the middle east have mixed emotions about that as adults, especially those who have prospered throughout down times presidency. the entire region undoubtedly will be >> he retired from 2019 four years. >> me say a few things about leading up to the inauguration that should happen on january january 20. one that the electoral event itself in the u.s. resonates in the middle east and america has been the leading democracy in the world for two centuries and the middle east since the late 19th century up till yesterday was still combating or struggling over the iss

in general, middle east is in a state of civil war in the sense that the middle east is at war with itself. in the main players are all engaged in wars against each other. , uae, saudi arabia, israel, and egypt, to name a few, are all engaged in proxy wars against each other in various parts of the region. and historically europe was in betweenpean civil war 1914 and 1945, until leaders decided that this was a lose-lose situation, and i tell the leaders of the region and, hopefully with encouragement from the united states, will really undertake -- open up serious talks with each other to de-escalate conflict in the region, to work towards normalizing relations with each other. it is quite something that arab countries and israel normalized, something never imaginable perhaps a few years ago. why would it be so hard for sunni and shiite states to normalize or for turkey and egypt and others to normalize? to my mind, this is childishness, not leadership, particularly as we head into the third decade of the 21st century, in a once in a century pandemic, economies contracting by 5

the term middle east gets used in many different ways. when you talk about 3.5% of world population, what is your definition of the middle east that you are applying? the -- toe eastern to pakistan. >> not including turkey? >> i will have to look at turkey but it was not an immense swing. now, you have an intriguing opinion like this on -- like everyone. i believe it is fair to say that you now decided that the peace process requires a whole different look at the u.s. military posture and a different approach. i eagerly anticipate your thoughts on somalia as well. over to you. >> thank you. let me start by making a broad comment and emphasizing something that justin said and endorsing it. when we think about u.s. military engagement in situations such as afghanistan, we have to think not solely in terms of the developments and also -- thiss but is rarely done in u.s. strategy. once engagement is launched, lens, the predominant looks at how to make the mission succeed. whether it is a military mission or other missions. this contract trap

he talked about middle east security, u.s. strategy towards china and the military mission in afghanistan and iraq. this is 45 minutes. >> hello and welcome. p, president and ceo of the ati

from the middle east. he is an advocate of minimizing the u.s. military footprint. i think it is fair to say that at a broad level, all of us are advocates of minimizing the footprint to the extent possible but much of today's debate or conversation -- it will have a little flavor of both -- is how do you do that and how much engagement is reasonable and desirable. to what extent is staying in some places with some degree of presence the least bad option for american national security policy? getting into that topic with real expertise on south asia is my friend and colleague, madea. she is an expert on pakistan and afghanistan. she wrote a book called pakistan under siege. one of the best modern studies on pakistan. i would recommend it to anyone. i asked many of my students in recent years to read it. she is a david rubenstein fellow at brookings. she continues her work on the broader south asia, afghanistan theater as well but also nigeria because she is interested in education and the way that influenc

this brookings institution panel talk about afghanistan peace talks, america's role in the middle east and the impact of the current troop withdrawals in iraq and afghanistan ordered by president trump. this month an hour and 10 minutes .p. >> good afternoon everyone and welcome to this brookings and charles focus event, i'm michael abbott with brookings and we're going to be talking today about our so-called rubber more in the broader middle east region and what a biden presidency along with the 117th congress should do about them. i'm joined by a distinguished group of scholars and friends from numerous institutions. all around washington but nonetheless reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking, experience and approach. in thinking about these kinds of conflicts with a lot of broad strategic expertise and also a lot of field research and hands-onexpertise . this struggle is at the new american engagement initiative at the selikoff center at the atlantic council. he has a long-standing scholar, many will know him from his years at the cato institute and his most recent boo

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or it specifically doesn't work in the middl east. the book focuses on t middle east. for the most part to the extent that there is a foard-looking contemporary debate. people talk about it all the time. the gime in saudi arabia. that felt to me like the most cuent policy. it's where i have the most personal experience. this is not just aistorical exercise. but a reflection on the their own experience. that's what i thihink the middle east is most relevant. more than latin americand asia and elsewhere. it's a where i hav to direct experience. it's even harder to pull this sort of thing off in the midd seat east than elsewhere there areot long spmac coherent nationstates. other than turkey and iran. they cross religions. even more than elsewhere. when you were removed regime. there are other relevant cases as well. most people will grant you that. let's talk about another case that we discussed in the book. that was praised as a low caution initiative. why is a conventional wisdom wrong. i think people who haven't really focused on this would say obviously the iraq war

problems in the middle east don't stay in the middle east. it is worth a sustained long-term approach to prevent hedging behavior that blocks the path toward long-term solutions. vivian: i'm going to try to squeeze into more questions. we have about four minutes trico. anonymous question from someone out there. how do we overcome china's long-term strategic view and efforts such as the belt and wrote initiative given the u.s. only has eight year-long strategies and depends on the current administration? lt. gen. mcmaster: that's why i wrote the book. i wanted to write it in a way that is nonpartisan. i think we ought to be able to come together around the challenges we are facing and craft nonpartisan solutions that are sustainable across multiple administration spirit. . obviously, foreign policy has to be flexible. you will always interact with adversaries and conflicts in environments that are unanticipated like a pandemic. there are things that will happen that you can't anticipate adequately. but i think an overall approach to the policy

in some ways, the middle east is apparently more secure today, in some ways the middle east is still treated -- still deeply troubled and deeply insecure. i think one of the areas you will see joe biden take a different path is confronting saudi arabia as a regional power there. remember, saudi arabia during the trump administration killed jamalan journalist khashoggi and faced very little cost to that. i think you are going to see joe biden attempt to reset some of that relationship with saudi arabia. host: let's go to ron, west chesterfield, new hampshire. the craddick -- democratic caller. caller: thank you very much for your time and this program. make two quick statements in question. obama congratulated trump one day after trump's win. he had trump at the white house , giving him briefings within two days. and that was a tough loss for obama. on to socialism, it seems like republicans continue to push this thing. if you are for a few socialist programs that helps the the poor, the sick, the elderly, it our country into a socialist is going to turn country. that is such fear mon

middle east more stable and safer.le and safer. i think thatis more stable and safer. i think that is incorrect stopping the as the iranians now are pushing the envelope backward, because the envelope backward, because the united states has walked away from it and they haven't gotten the benefit of the bargain that was announced during the deal and now they are increasing their material, as they understand it, and none of that leads to a safer middle east. the idea that you can have lasting peace in the middle east without the involvement of a major partner strikes me as rather extraordinary. so no, i don't think the region is any safer today. now, how do we actually go about trying to not only saved but improve that agreement is something which will have to be dealt with. a lot of water under the bridge and terms of the extension of scope for that agreement to include things that the iranians are doing that we all know about and is an edible. but that was a better way of addressing the source of instability in the reg

go on a tour of the middle east. and, you know, tout the fact that at this point, there are some governments in the arab world that have recognized israel. and it seems like the effort of the united states is to mobilize and polarize the region between israel and iran. take a listen to my palm, pale thanks to president troop. the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear review with the wrong place, crippling sanctions on the reunion regime and then limited the magoo to a record speaks for itself. during the trip administration, america stands with israel like never before. now many were hoping that things may change with joe biden in the white house after all, joe biden was vice president under barack obama, and it was the obama administration that negotiated the iran nuclear deal, which donald trump pulled out up. however, many, many are looking at what's happened since the signing of the iran nuclear agreement to 2015 and seeing the united states pulling out of that agreement more sanctions being placed on iran, the killing

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in some ways, the middle east is apparently more secure and in some ways, the middle east is deeply insecure one area where you will see joe biden take a different path is confronting saudi arabia as a regional power. saudi arabia during the trump aninistration killed american journalist, jamal khashoggi, and faced very little cost to that. i think you will see joe biden attempt to reset some of the relationship with saudi arabia. ron, new hampshire, democratic caller. you for your program. an awesome show. i may. question if the obama transition, obama congratulated trump one after trump's win. he had trump at the white house giving him briefings for two days, and that was a tough loss for obama. onto socialism, it seems that republicans continue to push this thing. if you are for a few socialist programs that help the poor, the sick, the elderly, it will turn our country into a socialist country. do not vote for a democrat because they will turn the country into a socialist country -- host: we will try and stick to the topic here. vicedent-elect biden and president elect kamala harris are

we will get back to the specifics, especially in the middle east, but on your arena, europe, i'm mindfulrved as us ambassador to the european union for some years under barack obama. in the arena of europe, there are going to be real efforts, it seems, to try to restore positive and warm relations between the united states and european allies who have looked with some disquiet at what happened under donald trump. how easy is that going to be? well, no—one is pretending it's going to be a walk in the park. we have a lot of challenges ahead of us. but i can tell you the emphasis will be dramatically different. let's start with the eu. donald trump jumped the rails after 60 years of bipartisan foreign policy in the united states, supporting european integration and supporting the eu particularly. i would probably agree with 90% of what my predecessors, republican and democratic, would have thought and said about the eu. this administration said, "you know what? we don't need europe, we don't need the eu, we'll do it alone. we will negotiate unilaterally, tra nsactionally, and we'll deal wit

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i mean, the middle east and europe is not, is not their 1st priority any longer. so this has begun already. it's intentional. i know. yes, it has. yeah. so, so, so that in the pacific area is a region is actually, they are there now, and we have to live with the repercussions and trump was just an extreme and extreme way. toot toot toot. to present this to us. and joe boyd says, america is back to get the confidence from, well, i would be, is gloomy and depressed as the others here. i mean, i think the united states is a leader will be a leader. and i think that's one of the reasons biden wanted to run for president. he wanted to help restore the united states tradition, the reputation as being a leader, and he likes working with alliances. he likes working with partners. he gave a very important speech last year at the munich security conference, talking about alliances. i think biden will be a lot like previous american republican and democratic presidents, i think trump will be the aberration when we look back at this period in history. diplomacy is back, so it

could one gets nuclear weapons we're going to see a nuclear arms race in the middle east in nobody'sinterest it's in the us interest the world interest to make to look at iran does not add a new bit weapon permanently not just to put it off a number of years early in london what's your reaction to that just quickly. no i think the 1st and foremost thing that any use of instruction us to do is look for a conflict concentration would be involved on the regional playing field yes maybe there isn't a military campaign underway but the sort of military escalation that seen very quickly get out of hand exactly as the u.s. on this administration is also increasing things like cargo and bessel inspections from iran it's not to match with a similar response in places like the straits of hormuz secondly i do think that if any u.s. administration is serious about that manic never has been involved on the nuclear issue they need to move quickly and fast equal nation with european allies the prime reason iraq you can act he's another one of them back and there will be in need right economically p

and if you just look at the middle east today, i think the middle east today is more volatile, more explosive, more out of balance, than we, we've seen, probably since the, the 1973 yaka poor war. and that's dangerous, because you look at the centrally nonfunctioning governments in the middle east, syria, libya, yemen. iraq still got deep problems. 11 on essentially has no government. that's not going to get better. that's not going to get better. and i don't lay all out at the feet of the palestinian israeli issue, but, but that is part of the larger framework of issues. and i think biden is always been a leader in this area. and he's always been smart about it. and he's tough. and i, i would suspect he's going to probably dress this up in his 1st 4 years. now it's, i know every president sees it as a no win situation. why would i want to get involved? why would i want to do this? why would i want to go there? but i don't think that you can walk away from the united states has to take some responsibility in helping facilitate the agreement there. and my guess is that biden will do that. i th

carmen haddad is the vice chair of citi middle east -- of citi middle east.o manus cranny about her rise to the top, the importance of hard work, and how her company encourages quotas. [no audio] annmarie: manus, sorry. i always took the advantage that being an anomaly in the middle east as a female executive, you know, to my advantage, you know. i think in the middle east, there is a misconception, right. i think if you look after your clients property and you have, you know, you have a great business ethic, you know, i have not really witnessed a lot of that kind of rhetoric where i have been involved. i have taken advantage of the fact that i am a female in the middle east. manus: you have to work harder than the guys on the team? i'm always curious when we do these interviews. did you have to work harder than the other guys, in your mind, whether real or perceived? end of the day, there is no substitute for hard work and skill set. enhance to ensure you your skill set at all times and if there are gaps in your career, you need to make sure you fill those

he believes middle east tension will potentially pop ministration. trump is doing this for political reasons and trying to fulfill a campaign promise. he's not also got to keep in mind. he may substitute u.s. troops for a keep in mind. he may substitute u.s. troops or contractors. and that is also something that's lurking in the background . but no one's talking about it. the whole notion is for him to have also something that's lurking in the background, but no one's talking about it. the whole notion is for him to have the troops by next may, but then see a lot more tensions in the middle east. because of the near constant, you know, conservatives who are joining by administration. as of the near cons. and you know, conservatives who are joining the as a power grab by the american people storage fees, which could allow the united states today, ph and c. has described a new bill going through the u.s. as a power grab by the american people storage fees, which could allow the united states to create liability outside of its jurisdiction to discuss th

>> the middle east has always been a mess and now were waiting through the mess.thank you cannot disconnect between what's happening today in between the united states losing the leadership position in the world. i think we are abdicating the world order that we established after world war ii and you see that in europe and we see that with our allies and us pulling out of an international agreements and we see it by us abdicating the fight against covid, for example which is the first time we have a global crisis without global leadership from the united states and we see it in the climate change and we see it, you know, getting in the midst of a global pandemic and someone else is always willing to fill that gap and, you know, you see regimes like china and russia more than eager to fill the vacuum that started so if you reach into those vacuums that started to happen in different places specifically in the middle east and now the saudi's are trying to figure out but the iranians are trying to establish an arc of insolence using shiite nonstate actors to the hous

the right time, my own guess i had a rather unconventional background, i spent the year in the middle eastling around, doing archaeology, studying languages a mystery, i wrote a column for the campus newspaper, i took all my courses credit no entry, i was a religion in the middle eastern studies major, i think you probably got it because no expectations of getting it, i was relaxed as anyone could be in the interview and i simply stood out from the others because i was not a 4.0 student. >> he went to oxford and got a phd and you came back and then i think he taught at harvard for a while. >> you might call classic in and out her career, i worked on the hill, the pentagon, the state department, the white house and so forth and in between i have been teaching at universities, it is the kind of career you could only have of the united states, for every other country forces you to choose a path, one of the many great things about this country you never really have to decide what you want to do when you grow up. >> you had two important positions of the government that i'm aware of, during the

have many supporters in the rich countries of the middle east. bahrain and the united arab emirates have established diplomatic relations with israel, with the help of u.s. mediation. saudi arabia may be the next to do so. the palestinians and their interests, however, have been completely ignored by trump. hostility towards iran is legendary. after he terminated the iran nuclear deal, sanctions and threats against tehran followed even an air strike on iran under trump cannot be ruled out, will transform policy become a security risk in the final days of his term in office. is there a biden doctrine? as far as i can see, there is a doctrine that he wants to to heal the wounds that trump has created. the doctrine is certainly to to reunite with the allies, but the u.s. is not an altruistic country. it's a country driven by and trysts. so finally, what we see is a nice or a nice approach, good intentions, good to know what intentions are back, which is a good thing, which is a great thing. and at the same time, the interests will stay the same. i m

i mean, the middle east is and europe is not, is not deaf us priority any longer. so this has begun already. it's intentional. yes, it has. yeah. so, so that in the pacific area is our region is actually, they are, they're there now, and we have to live with the repercussions and trump was just an extreme and extreme way to toot toot. to present this to us. and joe boyd says, america is back to get the confidence from gloomy and depressed as the others here . i mean, i think the united states is a leader will be a leader. and i think that's one of the reasons biden wanted to run for president. he wanted to help restore the united states tradition, the reputation as being a leader, and he likes working with alliances. he likes working with partners. he gave a very important speech last year at the munich security conference, talking about alliances. i think biden will be a lot like previous american republican and democratic presidents, i think trump will be the aberration. we look back at this period in history. diplomacy is back so definitely, i mean look at his c

if you look at the middle east today, i think the middle east today is more volatile, more explosive,e out of balance. probably since the 1973 yom kippur war. that is dangerous. because you look at the nonfunctioning governments in the middle east, syria, libya, yemen, iraq has still have -- still has deep problems, lebanon essentially has no government, that is not going to get better. that is not going to get better. i don't lay it all at the feet of the palestinian-israeli issue. but that is part of the larger framework of issues. and i think biden has always been a leader in this area. and he has always been smart about it. and he is tough. i would suspect he is going to probably address this in his first four years. i know everybody -- every president sees it as a no-win situation. why would i want to get involved in it? why would i want to go there? but i don't think you can walk away from it. the united states has to take some responsibility in helping facilitate an agreement there. my guess is that biden will do that. i think the priorities in his strategic thinking and his fo

as security umbrella for better in the middle east. meaning that the united states remains militarily committed to that region. the greatest threat that they've been facing at the last 50 years is the american public, is tired of the u.s. being in the middle east and wants to get out and measures of this kind, creating these alliances and using it to collectively fresh pressure. washington to remain committed to the middle east is something that we have seen that the israelis and the saudis and the u.a.e. have done before even sure of this formal recognition. so good. can you imagine that the crown prince, it's in his interest to basically sacrifice the fate of the palestinians in order to have the israelis allied with him as a bulwark against iran. so that the americans can sit, continue to see the iranian threat. is that what you're saying? part of it. i mean iran is very much used as that collective threat in order to justify this, but the bigger issue i think is to keep the u.s. invasion. that's part of the reason why these to be c

secretary of states in the middle east on a mission, but whose mission today might pump aoe did what? none of his predecessors dared or even wanted to do. he stepped foot on to an israeli settlement land the international community considers illegally occupied land, palestinians say belongs to them. like pump ayos boss, president trump. today's visit was provocative and in your face moment for palestinians. donald trump began his presidency by swearing allegiance to america's pro. israel policy were precisely the policy of israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. palestinians have never been included in any trump negotiations or decisions regarding the middle east. but donald trump leaves office in january and that leaves little time for more than last minute legacy building. if that was indeed the purpose of pump a a visit, could today's embrace of israel be part of donald trump's planned 2024 political resurrection? or could today have been a casting call for a future u.s. presidential candidate named mike it's a 1st for israeli american relations. and a parting gift from america

i now in the middle east the saudi's are trying to get out. as a bigger audience trying to have an arc of influence of nonstate actors in yemen to lebanon to a lot of the shiite militia, afghanistan, some of the shiite groups in syria. and the ironic and so forth. you see turkey is trying to play the same game with iraq of the state actors. is time to reclaim they believe their own historical influence. we see them in state actors in syria and libya. something that's happening because the united states with itself. and we have allies we fight with us, bleed with us. as one thing guaranteeing for them you see it 11000 fighters with isis hopefully not the united states. they protect themselves and their cities. there people we can actually depend on. look at the pakistan government. we started to negotiate the taliban we kept them on the side. now were trying to bring the government into it after we already had an agreement with the taliban. we did not even consult about the prisoner issue. we just decided this is going to happen. so they have b

we have to see to the trump case the middle east was cut almost halfway. gulf countries coalition and i would include israel coalition cpany have iran coalition. the yemenis, the iraqis, the syrians -- everyone of us is squeezed between these two gigantic military powers in the region. t saudi arabia more, but the united arab emirates and israel on one side and the iranians on the other. many people are fed up with this competition. the competition is happening in yemen and iraq, syria, not iran and divide or washington. how will the biden administration trying to disengage iran from interfering in iraqi politics on one hand at thesame time avoiding marred policy of the trump by pushing the iranians into a corner and forcing them to equip come arm , fire rockets, and whatnot. amy: we have to end the conversation here but we will have you back on soon. ghaith abdul-ahad, iraqi journalist and correspondent for the guardian newspaper. today speaking to us from istanbul, turkey. as we and today in britain, we and our look at the world's reaction to u.s. presid

think we have an articulation yet of the middle east end state that we'd like to see, right? how much does it matter to the united states that syria is still bleeding, that libya is bleeding, that yemen is a mess, that the gulfies can't work together, that israel is aligning with some, but we're not solving, as tammy made clear, the strategic threats to israel from hezbollah, et cetera? so, i think the question becomes, can you articulate a vision of investment in the middle east, whether it's with regard to syria, iraq, libya, yemen, you know, that is perhaps not the lofty 2011, you know, freedom spring vision, but is nonetheless a consistent investment on the side of stability, on the side of rolling back maligned behavior, whether it's iran, whether it's russia, whether it's saudis, whether it's our ally turkey, and bringing major allies to the table around that vision. and as eric and tammy have said, jcpoa, unlike the climate accord, is not turnkey. you can't just flip it back on because the conditions are no longer being met. so how do you define this bigger, i would sa

however we've got rain in the forecast the parts of the middle east i hear in. fine in trying to clear skies across the southern half of the arabian peninsula phenibut a cloud further north you see have a cloud stretches right the way from the caspian all the way down across northern parts of saudi arabia and there's some rain on that says well it could be have enough to produce them right into parts of iraq maybe northern areas of iran the showers extend their way through syria to ward lebanon maybe even pushing across israel and the palestinian territories we'll see that west of where the sinking a little further south which in these words as we go through a wedding day some showers there wrench they push their way towards q 8 and west inside of iran since the show was funded right here in doha temperatures touching 30 celsius with more sunshine the sunshine stretches down across northern parts of somalia just around the horn of africa but we have got some showers just feeding their way across central and southern parts of somalia pushing into kenya the short

secretary of states in the middle east on a mission, but whose mission today might pump aoe did what none of his predecessors dared or even wanted to do. he stepped foot on to an israeli settlement land. the international community considers illegally occupied land, palestinians say belongs to them. white pump ayos boss, president, trump. today's visit was provocative and in your face moment for palestinians. donald trump began his presidency by swearing allegiance to america's pro. israel policy were precisely the policy of israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. palestinians have never been included in any trump negotiations or decisions regarding the middle east. but donald trump leaves office in january, and that leaves little time for more than last minute legacy building. if that was indeed the purpose of pump a is visit, could today's embrace of israel be part of donald trump's planned 2024 political resurrection? or could today have been a casting call for a future u.s. presidential candidate named mike it's a 1st for israeli american relations. and a parting gift from am

ali soufan: i think the middle east, it's a way bigger mess now. i think you cannot betwee discon what is happening between the united states using our leadership in the work. i think we are advocating the world order that was established after world war ii. we see that in europe, and our allies and with us pulling out of international agreements. we see it is indicating the fight against covid-19 for example. this is the first time we have a global crisis, and leadership from the united states. we see it with the climate change. and getting out of the pandemic . and always willing to fill the gap. and you see regimes like china and russia are more than eager to fill the vacuum. so we see these vacuums that are starting to happen in different places around the world specifically in the middle east. it and now in the middle east, it's a chance to get out of the relationship. when trying to establish an influence using state hackers all of the way to human to lebanon and militia and have, son and some of the other xian groups in syria and in iraq and

we'll get into the middle east part of it later on, i think, in the discussion. just as a question on his sort of outlook, how it might have changed following the election last week. what he's sort of thinking-- what do you think he's thinking about the problems he's facing the world with a still very divided country at home and is his foreign policy likely to be different this week than it might have appeared just before the election? >> oh, wow. i think that last is a difficult question, but let me try on start with the broader outlook question. i think that one thing we've seen from joe biden throughout his career, whether it's in domestic policy, foreign policy, or in politics itself, is an ability to learn and grow and change. you know, this is not his first run for the presidency. and he, you know, across his career, i think, has just gotten better and better and better at what he does. what evan pointed out about his determination to empathize and to seek out common ground, i think these are elements of practical diplomacy that will serve him very well. an

>> that middle east as i spent a mess but now the mess is a way bigger mess.ou cannot disconnect between what's happening today and between the united states losing our leadership position in the world. we are abdicating the world order that stored after world war ii, and use it in europe, use it with our nato allies and see that with as pulling a from international agreements. we see it by us abdicating the fight against covid-19, for excel. this is the first time whether global crisis without a global leadership from the united states. we sit with the climate change. use it with getting out of the middle of a global pandemic, and someone else was always willing to fill that gap. we see autocratic regimes like china and russia are more than eager to fill the vacuum that started to happen in the region. we see regional vacuums that started to happen in different places around the world, specifically in the middle east. and now in the middle east the sounders saudi are kind of figure out where they fit. the iranians are trying to establish an arc of influence u